The 2000 recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is James Victor Zidek.
James Victor Zidek has been on the faculty at the University of British Columbia since 1967, serving twice as head of the Department of Statistics. His many professional activities included serving on the NSERC Statistics Grant Selection Committee (which he chaired in 1980-1981), as Editor of Statistical Science, and as President of the Statistical Society of Canada. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a Member of the International Statistical Institute. His areas of special interest and accomplishments include statistical decision, environmetrics, and environmental health. He has published widely and been an active consultant.
“To James Victor Zidek in recognition of his achievements in statistical science, in particular in the area of decision theory and group-Bayes problems; for his contributions to real-life applications of statistics, in particular to environmental health problems; and for his many other contributions to the development and dissemination of statistics.”